I don’t know if I would call it the “best” solution; I don’t know what the “best” solution would look like. I do think it is a very good solution, but there has never been a shortage of those in the history of Mercy feedback threads. I think it does stand out considering that it was the result of a collaborative effort and was collectively determined to be the best solution of all the ideas we came up with.
I wouldn’t be too sure about that.
I know the moderators are reading it. Some of my replies along with those of another person I was talking to mysteriously disappeared a long time ago. The developers themselves? No idea. Back when we had access to the forum profile of the developers, we could see how many posts they had read. The number of posts read by all of the developers with influence over balance changes combined was equal to less than one of the three Mercy feedback megathreads on the new forums. If they weren’t reading the megathreads they supposedly set up to collect feedback, I don’t think they would read a decentralized post that just happened to explode in popularity.
Probably because that’s basically what I’ve told them. I’m happier not feeling so obligated to read and reply to everything, so the best way to remove that expectation is to tell everyone (directly or indirectly) that I’m not really around anymore.